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  Peter Vonder Haar Tears Up Streets of Houston In New Thriller, Lucky Town

  June 19 at 4 a.m.

  With James Patterson's transformation into basically a co-author and the 2017 death of Sue Grafton ("L" is for Lawless), there's a need for more good mystery writers. But when the latest author to enter the arena is a Houstonian, with a thriller set in Houston, Galveston and The Woodlands, it's...

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  Trailblazing Houstonians Who Helped Get Us On the Moon

  June 11 at 4 a.m.

  Raise your hand if your boss ever promised a project that was so absurdly ambitious that, knowing what it would take to make it happen, you let out a groan of despair but also found yourself oddly excited at the challenge. And so it went for President John F. Kennedy's...

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  The Man - and the Myth - of Robert Johnson, Finally Unraveled

  June 6 at 4 a.m.

  Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson By Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow 320 pp. $30 Chicago Review Press Myth is a powerful thing. Even more so when it’s a fantastical myth that has survived and thrived over generations. And it is Music Journalism Law that...

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  How "SNL" and "SCTV" alum ruled '80s Comedy is a Wild and Crazy Story

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ‘80s Changed Hollywood Forever By Nick de Semlyen 352 pp. $27 Crown Archetype The ‘80s were a unique time in the history of movie comedy, when stars like John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, and Chevy...

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  Ray Viator Knows How Houston Earned the Name Space City

  May 20 at 4 a.m.

  Almost 50 years ago, as those glued to television sets were collectively holding their breath while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin completed their lunar module landing tasks, we heard those now famous words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." The Apollo 11 lunar landing forever cemented Houston as Space City in...

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  Warren Zevon: The Werewolf's Howling Life and Music

  May 6 at 5 a.m.

  Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon By C.M. Kushins 416 pp. $29 Da Capo Press Rejoice, admirers of Warren Zevon! It’s here. While fans have been treated to a very good oral history, two tomes focusing on specific songs and albums, and even a photo book, Warren Zevon...